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Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 16:20:02 +0300
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch] CodingStyle: add some more error handling guidelines
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Sorry.  I misread your email.  If the code looks like this:

	foo = kmalloc();
	if (!foo)
		goto kmalloc_failed;

The "kmalloc_failed" doesn't add any information.  We can see that
kmalloc failed from the context.

regards,
dan carpenter